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The challenge gets underway, and while it’s fun to watch, there’s not much point in a play-by-play. Malcolm is first, with Jonathan, Denise, Michael and Carter making up the top five. Pete, Abi and Lisa are out, so Pete is screwed. The second stage eliminates Jonathan and Malcolm, leaving Michael, Carter and Denise for the third stage.

Carter takes an early lead, so Michael and Denise have to “pick it up!” Carter struggles on a knot, and they catch up, and now it’s Michael in the lead coming onto the beach. But there’s one last knot to go through and Michael has a problem in untying it. Carter manages to get through first and Carter! Wins! Immunity! And “after 27 days, someone is going home tonight." If by home, you mean loser’s lodge with a bunch of people you probably can’t stand, sure.

They all get back to camp and congratulate Carter and talk about what a fun challenge it was. Even Abi says it was a fun challenge despite only competing in a third of it, but interviews that neither she nor Peter won, so they are in a bad position.

Jonathan lays out the vote plan to the other five – they split the vote between Peter and Abi. If the idol is played, Pete goes home, and if not, then it’s a tie and they all vote for Abi on the re-vote. Jonathan interviews that there’s no reason to keep them around. “Now, could someone surprise me and play an incredibly stupid move? Maybe,” he asks, knowing that interviews full of potential foreshadowing get air-time. “Could it screw up? Yeah. But you could get hit by a car walking from your house to the post-box, too.” Don't lay that foreshadowing on too thick, Jonathan.

Abi and Pete are talking about their options, and since the logical thing for the other six to do is split the vote, they only need to swing one vote to make things go their way. They decide to target Malcolm, because he has the most power in the game, and to sound out Lisa and Michael because they haven’t been abused enough already.

Pete is tasked with recruiting Michael. He interviews that Michael is “ditzy” and doesn’t really think but just “jumps in and does things." For that reason, he thinks his pitch might work. Nice admission that it’s not really in Michael’s best interests to go along with Pete’s plan.

Lisa responds to Abi’s pitch with “I think that sounds like a great plan, and if we were in an alliance where I had given you my word, I would totally be on board for this." “But you started the game with us,” Abi whines, as though that wasn’t just a lottery. Pete appears and Lisa says “I’m so sorry, I really am." So that's that.

Pete is talking with Carter, but Carter feels he’s in a “pretty good spot." Abi is also talking with Jonathan, who says that he “doesn’t trust any of them completely, but they trust me because I haven’t betrayed them once and that’s what I’m sailing on."

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